City of Los Angeles v. Leavis

Citations

• 119 Cal. 164
• 51 P. 34
• 1897 Cal. LEXIS 872

Syllabus

<p>Eminent Domain—Condemnation or Land sob Public Street—Power oe Municipal Corporation—Statutory Construction.—The provisions of the act of March 6, 1889, relative to the laying out, opening, extending, widening, and straightening of public streets in municipalities are not exclusive, and were not designed to prohibit a municipality from maintaining proceedings to condemn land for a public street under the provisions of part III, title VII, of the Code of Civil Procedure; and a municipal corporation has power to institute such proceedings under the code, where it has funds in the treasury available for the proposed condemnation and opening of the street, without resort first had to the method provided in the act of March 6, 1889.</p>